Podcast
On Being with Krista Tippett
A short story focusing on a young girl, Uma, who is taught to read and write but is later married off, preventing her from continuing her writing. The contrast between Uma's stolen notebook and her husband's filled with dissertations is highlighted.
And there's another base similar story. Again, it's only a few pages long, it's called the notebook.
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Episode: [Unedited] Anita Desai with Krista Tippett
A short story focusing on a young girl, Uma, who is taught to read and write but is later married off, preventing her from continuing her writing. The contrast between Uma's stolen notebook and her husband's filled with dissertations is highlighted.
And there's another base similar story. Again, it's only a few pages long, it's called the notebook.
Uma never had a notebook again. The notebook of her husband on the other hand went down accumulating, designing dissertations and thorny theories. There was no one to seize it from him and destroy it for the benefit of mankind.